Horse No. 24

Miles photographed this horse on the Blackfeet Reservation along Montana’s sweeping Rocky Mountain Front. He photographed this wallpaper in the ghost town of Bannack, Montana in the Greater House. Like the many others seeking to better their condition, Augustus Graeter arrived in Bannack from Nebraska in 1862 and built this home shortly thereafter. Through the years additions were made as various families continued to live there even as the town itself was in decline. The solid colored background is the painted plaster walls of the abandoned Hotel Meade, also in Bannack, which was founded in 1862 after gold was discovered along Grasshopper Creek. The town was the first Capitol of the Montana Territory. Title: Horse No. 24 Dimension: 26” x 39” Material: archival print on 5.5 oz. Belgian Linen Year Created: 2017 Edition of 25